Convertible automobile-seat structure.



A L11. & K'. O'MALLEY; y, l CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILE SEAT STRUCTURE.`

' M `APPLICATION FILE@ Muzi-.1911. 1,278,989.'

PatentedSept. 17,1918.

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JosEPn i OMALLEY AND xATHEnNE OMALLEY, QFMILWAUKEE, wisconsin.

CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILE-SEAT STRUCTURE.

To all whom it may concern.: i

. `Be 1t known that we, .losnrI-I J. (1MAL- Ln and KATHnRiNF. (YMALLEY, citizens of the United States, and residentsI of Milwaiu kee,-l\lilwaukee county, lVisconsin, have in vented new and useful `1'inprovements in Convertible Automobileeseat. Structures` olf which the followin is a description, reference being had to tie accompanying draw ings, which are a part of this slneilieation.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in automobile bodies wherein the sont, portions thereof are eon-V vert-ible to form beds.

-It is in general the ob'jeot. of this invention to provide an automobile body having convertible seat port-ions which may be inost readily manipulated to forni a bed," and which are of exceedingly simple and durable construction. l

. l/Ve contelnlilate using,lr the seatcushions as the mattress of the bed, and it is more spe- 'eitically our object to provide an uninter' rupted expanse of said cushions when used as a mattress, to promote maxin'nln'l conifolt. A furthenobject `residesin the provision 'of 'an arrangement whereby the back of 'the front seat maybe shifted to form the head boaid of the. ,bed in the conversion of the Slstructure for that function. With the above and other object-s in view, the invention 'consists 'in the convertible automobile seat structure, and all equivalents. l' inwhieh like characters ,of reierenee indicate the same parts in the -"'diii`eefiit,views:

`Figure 1 a vertical longitudinal sectional View through an automobile bodyl eX- emplifying the invexition and showing the parts arranged in their normal seat forming relation." l

'Fig'. 2 .is a View similar to Fig. 1 but showingthe parts arranged as a. bed.

Referring now more particularly tothe accompanying` drawings, there is provided an automobile body including the 4floor 5,

thel side Walls 6 and the rear Wall 7 which forms the back of the usual rear seat 8. This seat is ofthe usual box type to provide a storage compartment, as is also the conventionally positioned front seat- 9. A ba'ck 10 ,isxprovided for the front seat, and this back is seouredzby forwardly extending Wingsll manentlv attached cushion and at its ends which are pivoted at their forward ends to upstanding members 12 on the body walls G, '.Ihus the back may be swung fromits normal position, to a, position at the v'front edge of the seat S). whereby it may form the head board of a bed space. defined Specification of Letters lytent. 'Patented 17, 1918,

Application led May 21, 1917. Serial o. 189,947. i

by that portion of the car body rearn-'ardly f thereof. The sides of the wings 11 are concave and are adapted to rest, in either po sition of the back, on'a seating shoulder 13 on the inner faces of the body walls G. The. seats 8 and 9 are provided with removable seat cushions 14 ,and the backs are provided f with removable cushions 15, the lower 'ends of which rest on the seats between the backs and the rear edges of the seat Cushions, to insure proper yielding action. A relatively narrow cushion 1G is positioned on top of the mam rear seat cushion 15 and this narrow cushion is adapted to forni a' pillow in the 'use of the structure as a bed. i i .i

In forming the bed, slats k17'are provided which are adaptedlto extend between the seats and to support cushions disposed there l"over, it being noticed that the etanbined widths of the. cushions 1--l and 15 are equal to the length of the bed space." The slats 17 are adapted to .rest on seating blocks 18 on the adjat'ei'it sides of the seats, and 'when not in use they may be stored in the rear seat. compartment.

An exceedingly simple convertibley automobile body has thus been provided, which may be. adapted for a bed from the normal position of its parts by merely swinging the front seat-back forwardly. positioning the slats andiadjusting the cushions, and which may be as readily converted for its normal seating function. It is noted that when used as a bed the edges of the cushions are disposed in engaging relation to procure a continuous bed surface, in eontradistinction to those types of structure wherein the seatback or other portion is provided with a` peris shiftable to form part of the bed. i

that We claim as new cure by vLetters Patent is: y r In an automob'le convertible tor-sleepin purposes, a front seatand a rear seat, a bac for the front seat having wings at its ends and desire to` epivotally connected to fthe body walls, a seat` ing shoulder' on the inner faces of' the body walls adapted to have the wings rest thereonl r in either position of the back, removable -In testimony whereof We affix our signacshions for the front and rear seats, suptures in presence of two witnesses. porting means between the front und rear JOSEPH I (),MALLEY seats for completipg With them a fiat sup- 1 5 port for the cushion t0 constitute a bed with KATHERINE O MALLLY' the back of the front seat and the back of Witnesses: the rear seat forming a headboard and footf R. S. C. CALDWELL, board for the bed. H. D. CHASE. 

